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Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Wallace "Chip" Gregson warns that the U.S. Navy is clinging to steam catapult doctrine while the problem set has moved....
The US Army's Mobile Tactical Cannon program has selected the Hanwha K9MH, which mounts the unmanned turret of the latest K9A2 tracked howitzer onto...
The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
Vice Adm. Richard Dunleavy publicly questioned whether the Navy needed the F-22 Sea Raptor at all, citing its weight, as Cold War defense budgets...
One year into its eighth classified mission, the X-37B keeps breaking its own records: 908 days aloft, stealthy aerobraking, a quantum sensor that navigates...
The closest the F-15SE Silent Eagle ever came to an actual order was South Korea's F-X Phase III competition, a roughly $7.3 billion program...
The only jet ever built to hunt submarines from a carrier deck never dropped a weapon on one. It fought in Iraq instead, passed...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...
Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
Georgia Gilholy reports on Trump's map post declaring Hormuz 'New U.S. Territory,' a vessel struck off Oman hours earlier per UK Maritime Trade Operations,...
When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
Even during genuine unipolar periods, pursuing excessively ambitious goals placed severe strain on America’s military, economic, and political systems. Attempting to do so now...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R. – Calif.) has ratcheted up the threats of Joe Biden impeachment proceedings, calling on his committees to open a...
The famous B-2 Spirit bomber stopped in Norway in late August, marking the first time the stealth airframe has ever landed on the Scandinavian...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday officially announced that he will direct House committees to move forward with an impeachment inquiry of President Joe...
Context, though, is king. Observers must understand why the Speaker finally did it. It is very likely that Speaker McCarthy has little-to-no faith in...
President Joe Biden’s possible involvement in his son Hunter’s business dealings, and pressure from within the House GOP Conference, triggered Speaker Kevin McCarthy to...
